Our PhD students

Rural programme

Ali Davies (PhD at the University of Canterbury) – Assessment of multi-hazard impacts on regional infrastructure and consequent implications for isolated settlements and their communities (co-funded by EQC).

Tyler Barton (PhD at the University of Canterbury) – Streamlining the Disaster Risk Reduction Decision Making Process: Exploring decision support tools for assessing and evaluating risk and resilience initiatives across rural New Zealand (co-funded by the University of Canterbury).

Ashley Rudkevitch (PhD at Lincoln University) – Establishing a new normal: Community initiatives in rural resilience and post-disaster recovery.

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Culture programme

David Wither (PhD at the University of Otago) – Institutional pressures in agribusiness in New Zealand, specifically looking at how systemic issues impact on the resilience and wellbeing of individuals within the industry.

Rural programme

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Hazard programme

Kat Hore (PhD at The University of Auckland) – People’s participation in disaster risk reduction.

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Governance programme

Christina Hannah (PhD at the University of Waikato) – Resilience governance pathways.

Urban programme

Ede Odiase (PhD at The University of Auckland) – Urbanisation and Disaster Risk: Assessing the Resilience of Urban Communities in Auckland to the Risk of Natural Hazards.

Heiman Dianat (PhD at The University of Auckland) – Assessing Auckland City Resilience: Lessons from Using the Local Urban Indicators (LUI) Assessment Tool.

April Ayral (PhD at The University of Auckland) – Community Resilience to improve postdisaster recovery through build back better: A case from Nepal earthquake.

Mostafa Baghersad (PhD at The University of Auckland) – Developing a tool for assessing and improving the resilience of water supply system.

Elrasheid Elkhidir (PhD at The University of Auckland) – Development of an urban collaboration mode to improve resilience in New Zealand.

Gerald Kwazu (PhD at The University of Auckland) – Business resilience and the best practice.

Marina Drazba (PhD at The University of Auckland) – Managing the risk, not the disaster. Building community resilience in the face of Landslide Risk.

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Infrastructure programme

Mujaddad Afzal (PhD at The University of Auckland) – Mass evacuation of cities under impending natural hazards.

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Economics Programme

Robert Cardwell (PhD at The University of Auckland) – Application of Integrated Land Use – Economic Models to Hazard Management Strategy and Planning.